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CVE-2016-5425

7.8 highEPSS 3.8%

High (7.8) in apache tomcat. EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Tomcat package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, Fedora, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and possibly other Linux distributions uses weak permissions for /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf, which allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging membership in the tomcat group.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-276
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

References

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